The Short on JJP

The life of Jayson J. Phillips, Rich Media developer, in short, bite-sized portions.

Internet & the Modern Society (Part I)

  • LW: do you ever sit and think how crazy it is that we get paid to type code?
  • LW: and create these things that are completely intangible
  • LW: like you can never touch a website
  • LW: it's a little spark of electricity or whatever on a sealed harddisk
  • jaysonjphillips: but thats not unlike most things in our current society
  • LW: I'm sayin... it's crazy that we spend all this time doing work on (****) that you can't even do (****) with
  • jaysonjphillips: true, the funny thing is
  • jaysonjphillips: trying to understand the world 15 years ago
  • jaysonjphillips: like... we know and remember a world with no prevalent internet
  • jaysonjphillips: but can you imagine a brick-and-mortar amazon?
  • LW: I couldn't imagine building that from scratch
  • jaysonjphillips: the internet is the greatest enabler of modern societies since the telephone
  • LW: you ain't kiddin